For those of you in my age bracket that remember the excellent early 80's video game Frogger, I think you would enjoy crossing the street in Hanoi. I don't have it on fact, but I am pretty sure that the inventor came up with the idea after spending some time... Continue reading

My working time in Vietnam has been a big learning curve for me. Working for a University in Canada and in Vietnam has it differences and it's similarities. I think in education around the world you can always point to a lack of resources. There are ideas, and opportunities, but... Continue reading

This weekend I spent my down time by getting out of town! I ran away to Ha Long Bay, and now I can't imagine my life without this in it! I went through a tour group, and there were 11 of us for the weekend. We were picked up at... Continue reading

Friday morning I went into the office and started on some information relating to student groups and student engagement. I finished reviewing notes on the university, and started working on some ideas for the Press Club and the students at FOT. This morning Ms. Giang was in the office with... Continue reading

Thursday morning I started my day in the WUSC office completing the minutes of my meeting the day before and making a list of questions for the people I am working with at FOT. Then I headed over to FOT to meet with Ms. Phuong and the president of the... Continue reading

Well, here it is! My first day of work...I think! I arrived at the WUSC office to meet with Ngoc and head off to The Faculty of Tourism (FOT) at Hanoi Open University (HOU). It was a fair ride from the WUSC office, and we drove through areas of the... Continue reading

Tuesday is off to another hot start! The plan for today was to finish orientation at WUSC, and then meet with my employer in the afternoon. However, my employer had to cancel, so Ngoc came up with a new plan. After orientation I went for lunch with Ngoc, Alice and... Continue reading

So, Monday morning came a lot earlier for me then I had hoped! My body was confused and so I was up at 3:49am. I had the opportunity to watch the sun come up from my hotel window. Finally at 7am I went down to breakfast and met up with... Continue reading

Whoever said that it's not the destination it's the journey, was definitely not talking about traveling around the world! I started off at 4:40am on Saturday, the 24th to the London airport. Everything is as it should be and we head for the runway...and stop...and turnaround! Apparently traffic at Pearson... Continue reading

As I get ready to embark on my Leave for Change assignment in Hanoi, I start my journey with a new technology tool...a blog! T-minus four days until the adventure begins. Looking forward to Hanoi and starting at Hanoi Open University. Continue reading